Why I choose doTERRA

My passion in life is to love and be wild in love. I found doTERRA when I went to an emotional healing through essential oils class. By the end of the class, certain emotional evoking oils were passed around due to their their tendency to often provoke reactions in us. The oil that an individual responses to most is the oil that is said we need the most. I respond most to was patchouli, the oils that is to evoke self love and linked to personal body image. When i found out that link, my ground was a little shaken since it was so directly related to what I struggle with. I decided to immediately meet up with the women that taught the class, and buy a bottle of patchouli. 

In that moment and ones to follow I gained a new sense of wonder with my body and what I put into it and on it. I started listening to what my body was asking for and allowed my self to respect what I was hearing. As a psychotherapist that is something that I have always done, and now I have a renewed sense of encouragement to my do the same for myself daily. 

This thought processed than brought me to other considerations for how I was looking at my life, I was believing that I needed to listen to the constraints that other people were putting on me. Like I said in the beginning my passion is to love, in order to do that I needed to stop listening to the nay sayers and start telling myself yes, you can grow, you can heal, you can make a difference.

5 Love your Body Practices

1. Go on a gratitude walk.

In our busy world and life, it's easy to overlook the benefits of simply moving your body with pleasure and gratitude. Practicing gratitude with movement reprograms your cellular biology much faster than just gratitude alone. Movement can make improvements in areas of digestion elimination, serotonin and dopamine. It'll also develop the will center of your prefrontal cortex, making you more committed to your self loving practice.

2.  Eat with the vision of love

Put guilt and shame behind you when you eat, and eat with love of yourself and nourishment in mind. Take a look at the emotional need behind the craving of certain foods and figure out how you can lovingly care for yourself in a pleasurable way, without the need for food for emotional avoidance. Try replacing the habitual consumption of food with an action: try an activity you've postponed, put energy toward developing a friendship or relationship, honor your creativity, explore something new that gives you pleasure.

3. Give yourself an all-over-body hug.

Treat your body to something that your body craves, such as a hot bath with Epsom salts or essential oil body scrubs. Utilize the caregivers around you for a full body massage that its just the right pressure.  As you do these, imagine you're washing and melting self-judgment away.

4. Health the relationship you have with yourself and you body

Look in the mirror and say "I love you". Start by place one hand on your belly and one hand on your heart, and tell yourself out loud how much you love every inch of YOU.  Say it like you mean it.

5. Give your body rest

Sleep when you need to and let yourself rest often. Taking care of your body is not a sign of laziness or not being motivated, its a sign that you are taking time to love and respect your body.